Letter to President Jimmy Carter on Campus Sexual Assault

Letter to President Jimmy Carter on Campus Sexual Assault

​This letter to the former president was written in response to a section in his recent book, A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power, which discusses the response of higher education leaders to the problem of sexual assault on campus. ​​​

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University of Maryland Baltimore County President Freeman Hrabowski writes in The Atlantic about his institution’s success on and off the basketball court . . . Dorothy Leland, chancellor of the University of California at Merced, examines possible paths forward in the campus free speech debate, while a pair of op-eds in The Washington Post also look at the issue . . . Inside Higher Ed reports on the new State Department’s revamped system of travel advisories and what it means for student travel and study abroad . . . A New York Times editorial argues against a new federal government policy that pre-empts state laws that rein in student loan servicing companies . . . A Bloomberg View op-ed looks at how colleges and universities are vital to the economic development of their regions . . . A New York Times columnist writes about how Americans continue to value education.

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